Graduation work / progress trim 5

Description

350 words including aims of the theoretical and practical research as well as its outcome.

Media

Process Garagedoors

'17mm lens'

17mm lens
This is a still from a garagedoor video shot with a 17mm lens, the disadvantage is that the lens gives distortion in the image and needs to lens-correction in the post-production.

'20mm lens'

20mm lens
This is a still from a garagedoor video shot with a 20mm lens, I placed the tripod on a bigger distance to the door so I had more or less the same frame as with the 17mm when the tripod was placed closer to the door, the 20mm lens gives no big distortion and does not need lens-correction in the post-production.

Conclusion:
In my opinion the 17mm videos work better. The viewing angle is bigger and the image looks more surreal in this wider shot. There is more 'distance' between image and viewer because 17mm decrease the landscape-view: it seems further away. Maybe the 17mm works also better because the angle on reality differs quite much from our own purview. (a 20mm as well but the difference isn't that huge)

Video

optional unless the final outcome of the project, or one of its main components, is a video/film/animation.

allowed containers/codecs combos:
- WebM (preferred):
  - Video codec: VP8 (3-5 Mbps data rate)
  - Audio codec: Vorbis (-q 6)
- Ogg:
  - Video codec: Theora (3-5 Mbps data rate)
  - Audio codec: Vorbis (-q 6)
- MP4:
  - Video Codec: H.264 (3-5 Mbps data rate)
  - Audio Codec: AAC (160kbps or 384kbps if 5.1) or MP3 (-V0 or -b 320)
resolution: 720p if source >= 720p, native resolution otherwise, progressive.
FPS: 24, 25, 30.
Sample rate:
- 44.1kHz if source is 44.1kHz or 88.2kHz
- 48 kHz if source is 48kHz or 96kHz
- 44.1 kHz for everything else.

Audio

File:Sound in field optional unless the final outcome of the project, or one of its main components, is a sound piece/track.

allowed containers/codecs combos:
- Ogg: Vorbis (-q 6) preferred
- MPEG: MP3 (-V0 or -b 320)
- FLAC (-8)
Sample rate:
- 44.1kHz if source is 44.1kHz or 88.2kHz
- 48 kHz if source is 48kHz or 96kHz
- 44.1 kHz for everything else.
Do not transcode! For instance, if the sound generated is directly an MP3, do not re-encode it with the settings above or with a different codec. Only encode original uncompressed or lossless compressed sources.

Thesis / Graduation seminar

Exhibition in the Sub Urban Videolounge - Rotterdam

http://www.suburbanvideo.nl/

Documentation exhibition

11.03.2013 -24.03.2013

ASTRID VAN NIMWEGEN : GARAGE DOOR PIECES

Living in the middle of the farming fields, Astrid is strongly connected with and inspired by the landscape and the ever changing weather of the Dutch south-west. At the same time she travels – literally and figuratively. It is as if these oppositions are reflected in her work: passionately connected to video, her work is an ongoing search for balance between minimalism, conceptualism, theatricality, the language of cinema and ritualistic forms of storytelling. Garage Doors as presented in Sub urban video lounge is a studious collection of shots, where the artist´s only decisions seem to be the position of the camera, the moment of the shot and the duration of the opening of the door. By these decisions Astrid gives us the possibility to really see something, the changing of the light, the movement of the clouds, the reflections on the wet concrete floor, a leave blown by the wind... text by: Toine Horvers / Astrid van Nimwegen